b It takes a Village to raise a It takes a Village to raise a Child. Child. Embracing community care of Orphans and Embracing community care of Orphans and Vulnerable Children through enhanced Vulnerable Children through enhanced community involvement community involvement Caleb Odhiambo OVC-Service Delivery Facilitator HOPE worldwide Kenya
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bIt takes a Village to raise a It takes a Village to raise a Child.Child.
Embracing community care of Orphans and Embracing community care of Orphans and Vulnerable Children through enhanced Vulnerable Children through enhanced
community involvementcommunity involvement
Caleb OdhiamboOVC-Service Delivery FacilitatorHOPE worldwide Kenya
HIV/AIDS interventions started, the number of OVC's continue to escalate.
• There is need to optimize the efficiency or effectiveness of the interventions on the ground-current approaches needs to be looked at and new trends developed.
• The number of interventions cannot match the needs on the ground.
• The death of the communal structures that used to cushion children.
• OVC’s earmarked for service delivery are not being reached effectively due to the approaches in place.
• There need for an urgent and scaled-up response to mitigate the devastating effects of HIV on children
• Community involvement is key to enahanced sustainabilty.
• The needs of children cannot be met in the absence of proper community and family support.
• To complete the cycle of care, interventions targeting the orphans and vulnerable children need to respond to all of these needs, both physical and emotional.
• Deliberate efforts need to put in place to enhance synergy of efforts.
weekend clubs in the community and weekday clubs in schools in which youth and children take up leadership roles in the provision of community based psychosocial support to children in community.
• Main focus of clubs is to meet the PSS needs-physical, social, emotional and mental-though other needs are also met indirectly.